Beauty draws us with a single hair.
ALEXANDER POPEIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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